Romania News
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Bucharest -
One man has died and two others have been severely injured after parts of a coal mine collapsed in southern Romania, emergency services said Friday.
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Bucharest -
Thousands of Romanians protested Wednesday against planned hikes in social security contributions that critics say will wipe out generous salary hikes for public sector workers.
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Kiev -
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday signed into law a controversial language bill which has sparked a standoff with Romania and other east European states.
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Kiev -
Ukraine on Friday expressed disappointment after the president of Romania said he would not travel to the ex-Soviet country next month in protest over a bill that obliges schools to teach in the Ukrainian language only.
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Constanta -
While the arrival of exhausted migrants may be common on Mediterranean shores, it's a rare sight on the Black Sea coastline.But a string of recent arrivals from Turkey suggests it may be emerging as part of a new 'Romanian route' to western Europe.
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Romanian authorities said Wednesday they had rescued more than 150 migrants in the Black Sea, the fifth such incident since August amid rising fears that a new migrant route to Europe is opening up.
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Strasbourg -
Europe's top rights court on Tuesday restricted the ability of employers to snoop on their staff's private messages, in a landmark ruling with wide ramifications for privacy in the workplace.
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Strasbourg -
Europe's top human rights court is set to rule Tuesday whether bosses have the right to spy on employees who use company messaging systems, in a landmark decision for privacy in the work place.
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It is late, but Nicoleta Monea and her children cannot sleep. This is the last night the family will spend without electricity, thanks to "The Man Who Brings The Light".
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Bucharest -
The EU risks breakup if it fails to overhaul a rule that lets firms send temporary workers from low-wage countries to rich economies without paying local social charges, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday.
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Bucharest -
Romanian authorities said Monday that they had caught a fishing boat with 68 asylum seekers off Romania's coast, the second such incident in a week, raising fears that a new migrant route to Europe is opening up.
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Jerusalem -
Israeli police on Monday detained diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz and four others as part of an international money laundering investigation, authorities said.
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Den Haag -
Dutch police said Monday they had rounded up a gang of alleged Romanian iPhone thieves, who gained notoriety by clambering from their cars into moving trucks to pull off heists.
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Bucharest -
Romania on Friday sparked fury in Moscow by blocking a Moldova-bound plane carrying a senior Russian minister entering its airspace because of an EU travel ban over the Ukraine crisis.
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Washington -
The US State Department said Tuesday it is ready to approve the sale of Patriot air defense systems to Romania, a $3.9 billion deal likely to infuriate Russia.
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Bamako -
Al-Qaeda's Mali branch has released a proof-of-life video of six foreign hostages, including elderly Australian surgeon Arthur Kenneth Elliott and Frenchwoman Sophie Petronin, US-based monitoring group SITE said.
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Bucharest -
The Romanian parliament on Thursday approved the Social Democrat government of new Prime Minister Mihai Tudose, despite controversy over its economic plans.
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Washington -
An embattled Canadian mining company said Thursday it will go after the Romanian government for blocking its attempts to develop a massive gold mine that could bring in billions of dollars.Gabriel Resources is seeking $4.
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Bucharest -
Romania's outgoing economy minister Mihai Tudose was designated as the new premier on Monday, days after the ruling Social Democrats torpedoed its own government following an internal power row.
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Bucharest -
Romania's ruling left on Wednesday took the extraordinary step of torpedoing its own government with a no-confidence motion in the prime minister following a power struggle.
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Bucharest -
Romania's government fell Wednesday after the ruling party took the unusual step of passing a no-confidence vote in its own prime minister following internal power struggles.
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Bucharest -
Romania's governing left-wing Social Democrats (PSD) are expected to try to torpedo their own government on Wednesday after just five months in office.
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Romania's ruling left-wing coalition called an extraordinary session of parliament on Sunday to file a censure motion against embattled Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu.
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Romania's political turmoil deepened Thursday as Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu refused to resign even as he faced expulsion from his governing leftwing party, forcing the government into a standoff after just five months in office.
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Romania's ruling left-wing party withdrew its support for Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu on Wednesday, a move likely to bring down his government, which has only been in power since January.
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Former Romanian president Ion Iliescu and 13 other officials have been ordered to stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the deadly crackdown on a Bucharest protest in 1990, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
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Pitesti -
Just like Asterix's small village held out against the Romans, 2,000 years later in Romania a fight is on to keep Latin alive just as it dies elsewhere in Europe.
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London -
A Romanian woman who fell into the River Thames during last month's terror attack outside the British parliament has died in hospital, police said Friday, bringing the toll to five.
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Bucharest -
Dogs paid to demonstrate against the government. A deadly nightclub fire ordered by an American billionaire. So-called "fake news" is prospering in Romania, fuelling euroscepticism in the former communist country.
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A measles outbreak in Romania has killed 17 children and infected thousands more since September due to poverty and an anti-vaccination movement, local media reported Saturday.
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Romania Image
The University Square is an important place in Romanian recent history.
Otilia Iancu at National Ceramics Fair, Cucuteni 5000, in Iasi, Romania. July 2011. Joshua Iancu
A piece of the bacteria mat, magnified at 20X zoom and 4X speed. Rich Boden
The Transfagarasan is a road in the Southern Carpathians in Romania. Wikipedia
A Romanian soccer fan attacks a player on the pitch Video screengrab
The headquarters of the National Registry Office for Classified Information (ORNISS) is located near heart of Bucharest, Romania; ORNISS officials denied media reports a secret CIA prison operated in the basement of an ORNISS facility. ORNISS/orniss.ro
Ceramic plates at National Ceramics Fair, Cucuteni 5000, in Iasi, Romania. July 2011. Joshua Iancu
Stepping into Schengen's current image Stepping into Schengen
Romanians wearing traditional Romanian clothing stand near booth where cookery is being sold. National Ceramics Fair, Cucuteni 5000, in Iasi, Romania. July 2011 Joshua Iancu
House in Rosia Montana promised to be renovated by Canadian Mining Agency RMGC.
Mihai Blotor, Prietenii Mocanitei
one of the houses that Gabriel Resources will only renovate after the mining project starts
Mihai Blotor, Prietenii Mocanitei
A main street in the City of Brasov, Romania. Beautiful Romania Project Facebook picture
Traian Basescu, president of Romania since 2004 Romanian Presidential Administration
House in Rosia Montana village in Romania
Costinesti, in Romania, known as a sea resort city ataraxis
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